Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2013 21:39:13 GMT
Earlier today I was driving along, having just read a newly published salmon fishing blog-post that although well written is peppered with spelling mistakes and errors in BASIC grammar. It will be read by hundreds, if not thousands of people and, as I tootled down the A30, I couldn't help but wonder if many others will also notice these mistakes and if they do, whether they will care?
Isn't it all too easy to write a message or a blog, an article or a letter on a computer and rely on spell checking thingies and other software to edit any misspelt words or grammatical cock-ups?
A typical example (but just one of dozens) of how things can go awry is when a word like his is used, when it should be the word this, it would not be picked up as incorrect in its usage, leading to anyone who can be bothered, questioning whether the author should've been bothered...........well......to be bothered really - proof reading their offering that is.
The funny thing is that a lot of people who would have reached for the Tippex to correct a written mistake in the dim and distant past, don't correct mistakes typed on the computer, which of course are far more easily addressed. It is because they don't check what they have typed - either through lack of time or inclination.
Am I alone in thinking that the spell checker and its like; the frenetic pace at which we live our lives, that has aided/necessitated such a feature being developed in the first place and a decided lack of importance being placed on grammar and spelling by the reader in general are all examples of how times are changing, but not for the better; or in fact, does it perhaps just not matter in this day and age, or indeed has it ever?
Any thoughts?
Isn't it all too easy to write a message or a blog, an article or a letter on a computer and rely on spell checking thingies and other software to edit any misspelt words or grammatical cock-ups?
A typical example (but just one of dozens) of how things can go awry is when a word like his is used, when it should be the word this, it would not be picked up as incorrect in its usage, leading to anyone who can be bothered, questioning whether the author should've been bothered...........well......to be bothered really - proof reading their offering that is.
The funny thing is that a lot of people who would have reached for the Tippex to correct a written mistake in the dim and distant past, don't correct mistakes typed on the computer, which of course are far more easily addressed. It is because they don't check what they have typed - either through lack of time or inclination.
Am I alone in thinking that the spell checker and its like; the frenetic pace at which we live our lives, that has aided/necessitated such a feature being developed in the first place and a decided lack of importance being placed on grammar and spelling by the reader in general are all examples of how times are changing, but not for the better; or in fact, does it perhaps just not matter in this day and age, or indeed has it ever?
Any thoughts?
